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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 1d

I maintain that Giant Steps is not a great *first* record to hear by him for example. Or Ascension. So the records aren’t wrong, but the order was for me.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Dyck pic.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2d

This is astoundingly wonderful writing

@thequietus.com is essential reading for any music lover!

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 2d

I dug into the Wierd Eighties for @thequietus.com

Compilation of the Week: The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe – 1982-1987 | The Quietus

Joe Muggs looks back beyond rigid gatekeeping to the mad flux of the 1980s and the Scottish band who were outsider art and proto-rave

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

IV is first among equals.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

Nice headline.

John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

Looks good thanks boss.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

Ha ha ha! He's the Jazz Police! (But some of us need it tbf... I certainly did 25 years ago...)

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

So many decent albums mentioned in this thread! LOL. I regret buying Derek Bailey's Lot-74 *first* because I had such a violently negative reaction to this particular LP that I didn't listen to anything else by him for years. See also the *wrong* albums by Sun Ra, Magma, Gong & John Coltrane.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

Is there an objective, well-researched biography or profile of Zach Polanski out there? Just looked at the front page of Google and don't fancy either the Green Party's own biog or the BBC's (funnily enough). Does anyone have the (recent) straight, in-depth dope on him?

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 2d

Our Ron Mael of #Sparks Baker's Dozen is now accompanied by a curated playlist of essential tracks that define the band's career

Join the Quietus Subscriber Plus tier for access (to this plus many more perks)

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Sparks - Kimono My House album cover. Two women wearing komonos. One is winking and fanning her face, the other looks shocked and is holding both hands to her face.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

I wish my criticism necessitated me going to live in Mexico. 😪

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 2d

It's not like that. He's really a very nice guy. We do keep him in a cage in the office but only agree to let him out for 15 minutes (to spend some time with the large flock of geese that he dotes over, who treat him as some kind of God) when he agrees to be cruel to an indie musician.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 3d

"On the cover there's a Jackson Pollock painting, and I thought that was a perfect thing. It really seemed that Pollock was trying to reinvent what painting was, so Ornette was doing a similar thing in a musical sense."

#RonMael of #Sparks on #OrnetteColeman: Free Jazz...

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Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation album cover

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

Going to adopt this phrase.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

I’m trying to imagine a different path for me but rn it’s proving impossible. Insert bad week to give up glue sniffing GIF here.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

Ha ha!

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

It’s making me cry tears of spinal fluid just thinking about it.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

I HAVE ALREADY USED THE YELLOW PAGES GAMBIT TODAY. THE DNA PROVIDER IN QUESTION CLAIMS THEY GET IT THIS TIME BUT I FULLY EXPECT TO GET IN FROM A QUICK STEP OUTSIDE TO HEADBUT THE WALL FIVE TIMES TO FIND THEM TYPING A SHOPPING LIST INTO THE SEARCH FIELD.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to any of my sisters and brothers out there worldwide who are now in their third decade of patiently trying to explain to a parent what Google is. The struggle is all too real and I am very close to my third crying jag of the 21st century.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, yes. Fucking impervious choices. Coleman and Bitches Brew as well. Hardcore.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

Some killer records in this.

Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke to Ron Mael about the 13 albums that influenced Sparks, up on @thequietus.com today.

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Set Everything On Fire: Ron Mael of Sparks' Favourite Albums | The Quietus

Ron Mael of Sparks talks us through his favourite albums of all time from foundational free jazz freak out to cutting edge J-pop via Bach

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 3d

In Bristol for a reading with the mighty Joshua Jones at the marvelous East Bristol Books tomorrow, yes, Friday 10 October, doors 18.30. Come & say hello!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

I need to know more about why Ollie is holding a corn on the cob wistfully.

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 3d

Other Lives are a bit of a curveball for me but there is no denying true quality when you hear it.

Wyndham Wallace gets the lowdown on their sumptuous new album Volume V.

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Stillwater Runs Deep: Other Lives on Re-Enchanting the American Dream | The Quietus

Jesse Tabish speaks to Wyndham Wallace about how Other Lives' cosmic vision wants to make the American Dream great again.

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